I think you may have missed the point. Aaronson is being ironic here. Uploading your brain into a quantum simulation is ridiculously far beyond the realm of p

I think you may have missed the point. Aaronson is being ironic here. Uploading your brain into a quantum simulation is ridiculously far beyond the realm of plausibility. He's not suggesting this as an actual scenario, he's saying "This wormhole claim requires so much suspension of disbelief that you have to be profoundly ignorant of how quantum computers actually work in order to lend it any credence at all."